Isaiah 1:16 - English Standard Version 2016 Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes; cease to do evil, Matoleo zaidiKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes! Cease to do evil, American Standard Version (1901) Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; Common English Bible Wash! Be clean! Remove your ugly deeds from my sight. Put an end to such evil; Catholic Public Domain Version Wash, become clean, take away the evil of your intentions from my eyes. Cease to act perversely. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Wash yourselves, be clean, take away the evil of your devices from my eyes: cease to do perversely, |
Yet the Lord warned Israel and Judah by every prophet and every seer, saying, “Turn from your evil ways and keep my commandments and my statutes, in accordance with all the Law that I commanded your fathers, and that I sent to you by my servants the prophets.”
To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.
Depart, depart, go out from there; touch no unclean thing; go out from the midst of her; purify yourselves, you who bear the vessels of the Lord.
Now, therefore, say to the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: ‘Thus says the Lord, Behold, I am shaping disaster against you and devising a plan against you. Return, every one from his evil way, and amend your ways and your deeds.’
saying, ‘Turn now, every one of you, from his evil way and evil deeds, and dwell upon the land that the Lord has given to you and your fathers from of old and forever.
It may be they will listen, and every one turn from his evil way, that I may relent of the disaster that I intend to do to them because of their evil deeds.
I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, sending them persistently, saying, ‘Turn now every one of you from his evil way, and amend your deeds, and do not go after other gods to serve them, and then you shall dwell in the land that I gave to you and your fathers.’ But you did not incline your ear or listen to me.
O Jerusalem, wash your heart from evil, that you may be saved. How long shall your wicked thoughts lodge within you?
Hate evil, and love good, and establish justice in the gate; it may be that the Lord, the God of hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.
but let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and let them call out mightily to God. Let everyone turn from his evil way and from the violence that is in his hands.
“On that day there shall be a fountain opened for the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and uncleanness.
Were not these the words that the Lord proclaimed by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and prosperous, with her cities around her, and the South and the lowland were inhabited?’”
And now why do you wait? Rise and be baptized and wash away your sins, calling on his name.’
Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God.
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander.
I said to him, “Sir, you know.” And he said to me, “These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.